Daily Backup

Do Your Back-Up Every night!

It is very important for you to run your backup EVERY night. This procedure provides a "hard copy" of your data. If you do not do this daily, you are leaving your data unprotected against any type of system failure. If there is a system failure, and you do not have a current backup, there is almost nothing that Auto Data can do to help you restore your lost customer and sales information. Remember: It takes just a few minutes to perform this procedure.

How to run a Daily Backup

After you've done your closing procedures, your backup should run automatically. If for any reason, your pen drive was not plugged in, or your disk was not in the drive and your backup failed, you can simply exit out to the Cash tab and click on Backup and the system will attempt to run a backup again.

You can also go to the Home tab, click on Backup and you will have additional options.

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Daily Backup

The daily backup includes all of your sales, customer history and inventory information. A daily backup will be all you need to run in most cases.

Customer Only Backup

Customer only backup will only get a copy of your customer databases.

Monthly Backup

A monthly backup will backup everything a daily backup does and in addition will backup program files needed to make Pos-I-lube run. It is helpful to have a monthly backup in case your system goes down and you are not able to connect with Auto Data technicians.